Carter: That's why I don't have no partner, that's one thing I learned from my daddy.Lee: Your father was a policeman?Carter: Fifteen years LAPD.Lee: My daddy also a policeman.Carter: Your daddy was a cop?Lee: Not a cop, an officer, a legend all over Hong Kong.Carter: My daddy a legend too all over America. My daddy once arrested fifteen people in one night by himself.Lee: My daddy arrested 25 by himself.Carter: ...My daddy once saved five crackheads from a burnin' building, by himself.Lee: My daddy once caught a bullet with his bare hand.Carter: My daddy'll kick your daddy's ass all the way from here to China, Japan, wherever the hell you from and all up that Great Wall too.Lee: Hey, don't talk about my father.Carter: Don't talk about my daddy.

Lee: Ah! Beach Boys!Carter: Oh, hell no! You didn't just touch my goddamn radio!Lee: The Beach Boys are great American music.Carter: The Beach Boys gonna get you a great ass whuppin'. Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy! You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man!

Lee: You must take me to see Consul Han right away.Carter: Man, just sit there and shut up! This ain't no democracy.Lee: Yes, it is.Carter: No, it ain't. This is the United States of James Carter. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito. Your ass belongs to me.

Carter: This ain't no Democracy.Lee: Yes it is.Carter: No it ain't. This is the United States of James Carter. I'm the President, I'm the Emperor, I'm the King. I'm Michael Jackson, you're Tito. I own yo ass.

Waitress: For one?Carter: No, for two, I'm here for a meeting with Mr. Juntao.Waitress: I'm sorry I do not know Mr. Juntao.Carter: Look maybe you don't understand, I'm Mr. Juntao's lawyer, legal advisor, he got into some shit again and he told me to come down here and I'm a very busy man, ain't got time to be down here this late but I'm down here, my wife want me to come home, my baby is shittin' all over the house, he needs diapers, would you please go get Mr. Juntao?

Lee: Leave me alone. A man like you could never understand.Carter: A man like me?Lee: You are devoted only to yourself. You're ashamed of being a police officer, you dishonor your father's name!Carter: You don't know nothing about my father.Lee: You said your father is a legend.Carter: My father WAS a legend. My father was killed making a routine traffic stop in broad daylight by some punk who didn't want no ticket. His partner was supposed to get out of the car and back him up but never did. My father was just as devoted as you, and now he's dead, and for what? A traffic ticket and some punk? You tell me, where's the honor in that?Lee: You believe your father wasted his life, that he died for nothing?Carter: Prove me wrong.